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Updated: May 19, 2025
The juniors, disappointed in the hope of publicly displaying their anti- radical sentiments before all Shellport, looked about for consolation indoors that evening, and found it in a demonstration against the unlucky Bosher, who, against his will, had been forced to personate the Radical at the recent meeting, and now found it impossible to retrieve his reputation.
Two days before the election a mass meeting of juniors and Limpets of all houses and ages, summoned by proclamation, was held in a corner of the playground, "to hear addresses by the candidates, and elect a member for Shellport." Pringle, of course, was to figure as his distant uncle, and upon the unhappy Bosher had fallen the lot of assuming the unpopular role of Mr Cheeseman.
The two had scarcely met since the day of the election, when Wyndham, to spite Riddell, had joined himself to this bad friend, and yielded to his persuasion to go down, against leave, to Shellport. "Oh, young 'un," said Silk, in friendly tones, "you turned up? I'd almost given you up for good."
Then suddenly the truth flashed upon him. What could it mean, but that Willoughby had mutinied, and, in open defiance of his authority, gone down without leave to Shellport! He hurried out of his room. There was scarcely a sound in the house.
He was as much interested in that, of course, as the rest of Willoughby, but the reason he wanted to go to Shellport this afternoon was to see an old home chum of his, from whom he had just heard that he would be passing in the train through Shellport that afternoon. Great, therefore, was his disappointment when Riddell told him that no permits were allowed that afternoon.
The reader will remember that more than once mention had been made of an approaching election for the free and enlightened borough of Shellport, which was occupying the attention not only of the town, and of the doctor and his ladies, but also of the boys themselves.
He goes about collecting them in Shellport, I suppose, and finishes them up on the quiet." "Oh, he's a beast!" said Cusack. "And old Silk's about as bad. He doesn't care a bit what we do as long as he enjoys himself. Don't suppose he'd be down on us, do you?" "No fear! He might pot us now and then for appearances' sake, but he wouldn't report us, I guess."
The race was fixed for three o'clock, when the tide would be running up at its fastest, and long before that hour every advantageous point of view on the banks was secured by eager spectators. These were by no means all Willoughby boys, for the school boat-race was always more or less of an event in Shellport itself, whose inhabitants flocked in large numbers to the scene of the contest.
Everybody even the Welchers, who at the last moment had given up any attempt to form a crew, and "scratched" found it hard to think or talk of any other subject, and beyond the school bounds, in Shellport itself, a rumour of the coming race had got wind and attracted many outsiders to the river banks.
Pil and I were too far behind to back you up, you know, or we would have, wouldn't we, Pil?" "Rather," replied Pil. "Why," said the captain, catching sight of the bruised and ragged condition of these young men of war "why, you've been knocked about a great deal more than I have." "Oh," said Cusack, "that was in the run up from Shellport, you know.
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